The Beginner’s
Guide To Mountain Biking 2nd edition is Bicycling’s guide to the joy
of riding off-road.
Here
at the Bicycling office we get plenty of emails from men
and women wanting to get into mountain biking, but with no idea of where
to even start. That’s why we’ve produced The Beginner’s Guide to
Mountain Biking.
Don’t
let anyone fool you, mountain biking is not easy. And if you’re a
beginner, the myriad of gear options, training plans and skills you need
to know sometimes makes the sport enormously intimidating to the
uninitiated. Just take bikes, for example. On the road, the choices are
simple, and revolve largely around price point. But in mountain
biking there are 29ers, 27.5, 26ers, soft tails, hard tails,
enduro bikes, DH frames, etc etc…
We’ve
dipped into the basics of gear, given some practical advice on the
elementary skills that will keep you safe and make things enjoyable, and
offered maintenance tips. The great thing about mountain biking is that it
continually rewards. The more you know, the better gear and
bike choices you make, the better your skills and training, the more
enjoyable every ride becomes. So we’ve debunked the myths, explained the jargon,
simplified the bike choices and brought mastering maintenance within
reach.